[Groff] Old *roff utilities - found a diffmk, any checkmm?

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kollar

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[Groff] Old *roff utilities - found a diffmk, any checkmm?

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Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:27:25 -0500

While indexing Chapter 15 last night, I ran into a reference to a utility
called "diffmk" that compared two *roff documents and created a third document
with change bars in the right places. Hm... Google didn't point me to the
original code, but I did find a Perl script called diffmk.p that purported to
do the same thing. I haven't tried it out -- yet! -- but here's a link if
you're interested:
http://www.landfield.com/software/comp.sources.misc/archive-name/volume06/diffmk.p.gz
In a desperate attempt to stretch out my break, I started hunting for checkmm
or a remake. I had no luck, but found something Meg McRoberts posted here last
year:
Do we have something like checkmm available for the
ms macros on Linux? [...] If you don't have access
to the old source for checkmm [...] I may be able to
get ahold of it with the rights to use it...
http://www.ffii.org/archive/mails/groff/2002/Jul/0104.html
Meg, did you ever follow up on that? I looked at what's available for Plan9 and
neither checkmm nor diffmk were there (both are mentioned in UTP, so it would
be nice to be able to point readers to them).
Larry